Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Taxi Driver, Martin Scorcese delivers us an up-dated twist on "Notes From the Underground," with sophisticated ballistics thrown in. Blown out by a decade of Vietnam and assassinations, Dostoyevsky's "man of consciousness" has become Scorcese's man without a conscience and body without a past: Travis Bickle, a taxi driver and ultimate nobody. Robert DeNiro gapes and mumbles into this challenging role, and somehow (DeNiro really astounds me at times) manages to convince us that not only his past but his entire identity has indeed slipped his mind...
...Thrown out into the woods again, Pippin this time takes up with Catherine, a widow played by Alexandra Borrie, who owns a large estate. Eventually, Pippin becomes her lover and a father figure to Theo, her little boy. But Pippin even spurns love, leaving Catherine because, of all things, there must be something more to his life...
...rhesus monkeys. After three weeks of clinical observation, the animals are "sacrificed"-killed humanely by an overdose of sodium pentothal-so that their nervous tissues can be examined microscopically for changes that would result from any imperfection in the vaccine. If any are found, that batch of vaccine is thrown out. If none are found, samples of the batch are sent to the Bureau of Biologies, where the process is repeated. Lederle uses 1,200 to 1,500 rhesuses a year for its testing; Biologies uses 2,000 to 2,500. Similar testing of other vaccines may consume...
...game, and the game loved him, but warming the bench wasn't Broadway Joe Namath's style. After sitting out most of the last ten games of the Los Angeles Rams' season, the onetime hero of the New York Jets made up his mind: he had thrown his last N.F.L. pass. "It was no fun being second-string quarterback," said Namath, 34. But, he quickly added, "I have no regrets." He spoke briefly of the leg ailments that plagued him throughout his career. "I remember after my first knee operation, right after I signed with the Jets...
...ever met. His ex-wife's prominent Boston lawyer father pays Aldrich $500 a month alimony to keep his distance-on a 500-acre retreat in Vermont. There, someone systematically blows up and burns down the "tumbledown Disney land" of a condominium that the remittance man has cynically thrown together on the site. An acquaintance Aldrich meets at a bar speaks for thousands when he complains, "You have lied, I think, at least once to everyone in New England...